In this podcast episode, Pastor Mike reflects on his past actions and sins against God, family, and friends. Despite his rebellion and disobedience, Pastor Mike came to the realization that God never abandoned him. He shares that he eventually understood that nothing he did could change God's love for him. Subscribe/Follow Now! Join us live on-line for Sunday Manna @1PM & Wednesday Bible Study @7PM here: https://solo.to/therefuge617 We look forward to blessing God with you! I’m Pastor Mike, I’m out! Support Our Ministry: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pastormike617
[00:00:00] I want you to know that I have given me personally. I'm not talking about you, I'm not talking about sister's own, so I'm talking about me. I'm talking about me. I could have or I have many times. Could have caused God to walk away. God could have said,
[00:00:17] You know what? You ain't never gone to get it and no matter what I did. I could not change God's mind. I couldn't change it about me, no matter what I did.
[00:00:27] I couldn't change his mind about me, no matter what I said. I couldn't change his mind about me. It is true that he loves me. He says, I remember when I was a kid y'all don't remember that. But we used to sing a song that said yes.
[00:00:43] Jesus loves me. Yes, he does. Yes, he does. How do you know for the Bible tells me? So that's how I know the Bible says it. It's in his word and it's said, I love you.
[00:00:58] I love you so much that I died on the cross just for you. Just nothing you can do to be outside of God's love. It's impossible no matter what you have done. Oh God, I work my whole life and I end gangs. I work
[00:01:17] it against every day of my life 24-7. It was about gangs and gang violence. And I'll never forget a kid said to me, are you serious past the mind? You mean to tell me that God can forgive me for what I did?
[00:01:35] Oh God, I know it's hard to believe. I know it's hard to father. I know it's hard to see. But God is a forgiving God. He really, really is. He said, if you come to me and you confess with
[00:01:49] your mom and you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died for yourself every time they put that strap across his back. That was for you. Oh God, help me here today when they stabbed them
[00:02:05] in his sight. That was for me. You'll never read nowhere where God Jesus lost one paint or one drop of blood until it was time to shed it. I find that interesting why because you never read nowhere where Jesus
[00:02:25] banged his foot on a nail or stuck himself on a nail. You'll never read nowhere where he got a spritz or anything happened that caused Jesus a loo one drop of blood until the time came when he
[00:02:41] lost it for me. He shed it for me. I needed every drop of it because I was filthy rich. I needed every drop of it and he was willing. Oh God, to shed it. Just for me, I got to praise him.
[00:02:59] I might have to praise him by myself today. But you know what, that's not a problem. I've done it before. I will do it again and have no problem blessing God all by myself because you know what,
[00:03:14] lay in the midnight hour. When I needed a prayer answer, you were not there. You were nowhere to be found. You wouldn't answer the phone for clocking the morning and you know you wouldn't
[00:03:28] have, but I know somebody. Oh God, who is always there? Always available. Always there. His air is always open for me when I cried out to him. He'd the only one around. You're all he'd the only one that you can depend on.